ISIS Families Relocated Without Warning; 387 Killed in Iraq

Aid groups expressed
their concern over the unannounced relocation of about 1,400 people who are the
foreign wives and children of Islamic State suspects. The families were
being held at a camp in Hammam al-Alil recently, but have since been transferred
to Tal Keif, where authorities say they have been placed into more suitable
housing.

With the Kurdish independence referendum now a week
away, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will meet
with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss the
situation while the pair is in New York for the United Nations General
Assembly. Both Ankara and Baghdad are against Kurdish independence and want the
referendum to be canceled, even though the referendum has no legal authority to
grant independence to the Kurdistan region. UN Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres also called
on the Kurds to cancel.